by Jamie Jeffers | Apr 9, 2018 | Income
Learn how to tell legitimate full time work from home jobs from the scams. You won’t believe how many options there are! You’re sure to find something that matches your talents with the perfect line of work..even if you have no experience.
You’re ready to make the leap.
You desperately want to stay home with the kids. Or you need extra income to pay off debt.
Maybe you have to escape a dead end job before it swallows you.
Or you just need to know whether you can make it on your own.
It’s time to find a full time work from home jobs out there fits your life.
You’re tired of reading about how you can take surveys or watch ads to make pennies for your time. No, you’re ready for a legitimate job.
You know it’s going to take some effort and time to make that income, and you’re ready to tackle it.
Let’s talk this out. Today you’ll learn which full time work from home jobs fit you based on:
- How soon you need money to start coming in.
- How much risk you’re willing to take.
- Which area fits your strengths.
- The first step you need to take to get started.
So if you’re serious about finding a way to earn real money from home, let’s do this.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Apr 5, 2018 | Ways We Saved This Week
This week I put together our goals check in for April, and I’ve gotta tell you…it’s way more fun to write goals when you aren’t giving all your money to credit card companies!
Of course we aren’t splurging on a bunch of “stuff” now that we’re debt free. (Ok, we did a little splurging on our trip last week!) Most of that debt money is now going to fill our savings account.
But watching money build in an account is a million times more fun than sending it off to pay for things you bought years ago. It seems so silly that we lived that way for so long! Setting those big goals was sooooo worth it!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Apr 4, 2018 | Goals
There is no way we’d have paid off tens of thousands in credit card debt without our beloved goals. That’s why I love to share our goals progress each month! I hope that showing you snippets into our life as we pay off big chunks of debt is inspiring and helpful.
But I didn’t do a March update this year. I started to pull it together…but there was just nothing to tell! We hadn’t finished our credit card debt yet. And since most of our goals for the year are waiting until we can pay cash to meet them, we didn’t make progress in those areas, either.
But that’s ok. The wait was worth it. Because after 27 months of chunking away at tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, I can finally make the announcement I’ve been dying to type for years.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 30, 2018 | Ways We Saved This Week
One evening, when our #yearofno was wearing thin (and getting on our nerves a little bit), Hubby and I talked about the first thing we’d do when we were free from credit card debt. We considered a few ideas, but finally decided that a little getaway was the perfect reward for our family.
We sent in our last payment a couple of weeks ago! So we decided to book a hotel for one night of spring break. We took the kids to Indianapolis for a couple of days of fun.
I can’t tell you how relaxing it is to get away with the family on a trip you can cover with cash. It felt truly rewarding after years of looking for free things to do over spring break.
Not that there’s anything at all wrong with having a frugal or free spring break. You can bet we’ll still have plenty of those in our future! But sometimes a cash splurge is just what the doctor ordered.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 23, 2018 | Ways We Saved This Week
One of my big concerns with reaching our big goal (paying off a ton of credit card debt) was…what’s gonna happen next? Will we really be able to keep our money saving ways once we paid off debt and our #yearofno was over?
But in my next couple of shopping trips, I discovered a funny thing. Now I’m actually more protective of our money than I was before! Maybe that has something to do with the fact that every dollar I save…is a dollar I save!
Now I’m not saving money so I can ship it out to a big corporation. (Not that I have anything against big corporations, per se. It just isn’t much fun when you aren’t getting anything in return.)
We’ve been talking about this a bit in the Facebook group. If you’ve always wanted to be part of a group that gets it…no need to explain your frugal ways or the reason your celebrating saving $2…this is the group for you!
Join us at Living That #YearofNo Life.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 19, 2018 | Saving Money
Keeping snacks for trips handy can save you a ton of money. It helped our family pay off thousands in debt! All you need is a list of foods that travel well. Get the free printable here!
If I had to choose a symbol for our debt payoff journey, it would be our ratty old Coleman cooler.
Not only did it save us a ton of money…it also helped us change some bad habits. (We were spending hundreds of dollars on food whenever we left the house.)
Learning to make snacks for trips a priority was an important step toward saving money.
For us, snacks have to be affordable, easy to carry, but also easy to throw together.
I definitely don’t have 20 minutes to create a caterpillar out of cucumbers, tomatoes, and raisins.
Here are some of our family’s favorite easy snacks for trips, school, park days, or wherever you take a hungry family!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 16, 2018 | Ways We Saved This Week
Two weeks. I don’t think I’ve taken that kind of break from blogging since I began! But I finally carved a pocket of time to dedicate to writing.
Never mind the fact that a dead truck battery gave me this time. 😉
Last week, the big day we’ve anticipated for well over two years FINALLY happened.
WE PAID OFF EVERY BIT OF CREDIT CARD DEBT!
It wasn’t as smooth as I thought it would be. I’ll admit that we used our tax refund to finish off the debt. But it didn’t quite cover the entire bill. But I was so anxious to be done that I scraped together every bit of cash I could come up with to bring that balance to zero.
Adding that frantic movement to our last day of credit card living kind of curbed the joy I was looking for. But the sweet relief of standing on our own two feet without those bills hanging over us anymore was so worth it.
I expect that our next payday is when it will hit me that we don’t have to turn over all of that cash to a credit card company. That’s when the balloons will fall from the sky.
I assume.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 5, 2018 | Large Family Life
These tips for raising large families are super easy to put into place. And once you start using them, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without them!
I don’t know why, but when you have a bunch of kids, people tend to assume one of two things about you: 1) You have it all together (much more than they ever could!)…or 2) you’re a hot mess.
But to be honest with you, large family Moms are pretty much like the rest of the members of the Mom club. They come in all shapes and sizes.
I think every mom, from the Pinterest perfect Mom to the lovable chaos Mom, would love to learn things that make Mom life easier.
Perfect mom, I am not. But I have been doing this parenting thing for over 19 years now. And along the way, I’ve managed to stumble upon some great parening hacks that make life easier.
So check out my personal list of quick and easy ideas you can put into place to make your large family home flow more smoothly.
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I'm Jamie, and I want to help you afford a beautiful life with your family. 
